That street

Left the Coolidge Corner theater at 11:45 and seeing as how I was in no rush, I opted to walk back to my apartment rather than take the T. First off, the length of the walk from Coolidge Corner to my apartment is the perfect amount of time for a short stroll: a very pleasant 20 minutes. Less than that is tedious (an 8 minute walk is something to abhor) and more than that breaks the cradle of "stroll" (pilgrimage? fat baby!). Clear sky and warm air.

There were of course the glorious town houses and inns around the 1200s Beacon Street and down to the mid-1100s, and all of the nice little things to look at along the way. Then I get to St. Mary's Street, but not on the even-numbered side of Beacon, but the odd-numbered side. The two sides seem like separate entities because the beefy section of the T tracks makes it impossible for one to walk from one end of St. Mary's to the other. But walk down it sometime, it's an entirely different world.

Toward the end of a very quiet section of St. Mary's (100 on down to about 130) is another street that runs perpendicular to St. Mary's and parallel to Beacon, and can be most easily located by imagining the first right you can legally take after turning right onto Park Drive (when traveling East)...that is our street.

There's also a great neighborhood that begins around this street, but this area is best left for running. A one hour run is the best way to see an area that requires studying and appreciation and time because you are running so you are accomplishing something, but at the same time no one can blame you for not looking harder at the molding on top of the bell tower.

Then there was the whole episode of Le Corbusier and City Hall and Mugar/Law Building/GSU, but that is still an incomplete thought. But I assure you, mind-blowing stuff.